Infrastructure Manager (M/F)

Building a future of trust together

Thales is a global leader in high technologies specializing in three sectors of activity: Defense & Security, Aeronautics & Space, and Cyber & Digital. It develops products and solutions that contribute to a safer, more environmentally friendly, and more inclusive world. The Group invests nearly 4 billion euros per year in Research & Development, particularly in key innovation areas such as AI, cybersecurity, quantum, cloud technologies, and 6G. Thales has nearly 81,000 employees in 68 countries.

Our commitments, your benefits

• Success driven by our technological excellence, your experience, and our shared ambition
• An attractive compensation package
• Continuous skill development: training courses, internal academies, and communities
• An inclusive, benevolent environment respecting employee balance
• Recognized societal and environmental commitment

Your daily life

By joining us in Carquefou, near Nantes, you will integrate a dynamic site bringing together our digital services activities, enabling us to operate our clients' critical information systems and support them in their secure digital transformation.

The Critical Outsourcing Engineering Department is looking for an experienced infrastructure manager/architect for its Dedicated Expertise Service Center.

Your main missions will be to:

• Analyze/capture and write client needs expressions
• Propose, challenge solutions and requirements
• Design general infrastructure architectures (networks, servers, cloud, storage, security)
• Draft general architecture (DAG) and technical engineering (DIT) documents
• Participate in defining infrastructure roadmaps
• Develop technical policy
• Recommend technical solutions to ensure a high level of service quality and continuity (scalability and system resilience)
• Ensure compliance with the standards and processes defined within the technical master plan
• Ensure conformity to standards and regulations (ISO 27001, RGPD, NIS2)
• Be able to evaluate risks and propose remediation plans (DRP/BCP, backup, monitoring)
• Draft non-standard requirement documents if necessary
• Draft/contribute to testing implemented solutions
• Draft/contribute to administration and operation documents
• Define technical integration procedures.
• Facilitate cross-functional workshops (SSI, Engineering, Integration, Operations, Provider, Outsourcer, etc.)
• Be able to present and defend technical choices
• Perform technological watch and propose continuous improvements.

Your Profile

You are a BAC+5 graduate (Engineering school or university with a specialization in IT), you have significant initial experience as an Infrastructure consultant/architect and dream of developing your skills in an exciting, constantly evolving technical environment?

You have the following skills:

• Proficiency in operating systems (mainly UNIX/LINUX), backup and storage solutions (SAN, NAS, RAID, etc.) and associated architectures
• Database knowledge (SQL Server, MySQL, PostgreSQL, NoSQL)
• In-depth network knowledge: TCP/IP, DNS, DHCP, LAN, VLAN, VPN, Load Balancing, Firewall, etc.)
• Significant experience with network protocols and equipment (CISCO, Juniper, Palo Alto, Fortinet, etc.)
• Proficiency in virtualization solutions (VMWare, Hyper-V, Proxmox) and cloud environments (AWS, Azure, GCP, OVH, Cloud Temple)
• Knowledge of containers and orchestration (Docker, Kubernetes)
• Knowledge of infrastructure security (IAM, Encryption, MFA, ISO 27001, IGI 1300)
• Proficiency in automation tools (Ansible, Terraform, Puppet, Chef), experience with CI/CD pipelines (GitLab CI, Jenkins) and shell scripting (Python, Bash, Powershell)
• Good writing and synthesis skills to produce deliverables within deadlines
• Good ability to follow several projects in parallel and work in a team
• Comfortable with PowerPoint and Microsoft Visio for presentations and able to popularize technical architectures
• Ability to follow technological evolutions and propose innovations
• Adaptation to new business and regulatory requirements

The qualities required to succeed in this role are your rigor and organization, your ability to communicate and popularize with diverse interlocutors, your adaptability, and your analytical and synthesis skills.

As the position may require access to information relating to national defense secrecy, the selected person will be subject to an authorization procedure, in accordance with the provisions of articles R.2311-1 et seq. of the Defense Code and IGI 1300 SGDSN/PSE of August 9, 2021.

A word from the manager

Our mission within the Dedicated Expertise Service Center (CSED) of the Critical Outsourcing Engineering Department (Di²C) is to build and operate the infrastructures of tomorrow. In a constantly evolving world, we are at the heart of technological and operational challenges, thus guaranteeing performance, resilience, and security to our increasingly demanding clients.

Thanks to our expertise, our industrial know-how, and our ability to manage large-scale projects, we innovate every day to push the limits of technology and ensure high service availability for all our clients (internal or external).

By joining Thales Digital Services, you become part of a large group and its advantages, but also local, human-sized, dynamic, and motivated teams, where proximity management and benevolence foster the development and success of everyone.

To continue our development on the Carquefou site, we are looking for today's and tomorrow's talents: passionate, motivated professionals, ready to take on the challenges of our defense sector and grow with us.

Together, thanks to your expertise and commitment, let's meet the challenges and build the future!

Thales, a Handi-Engaged company, recognizes all talents. Diversity is our best asset. Apply and join us!